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Kesselchaos

Potions quickly brewed

Senior Witch Yorandel checks the potions at the end, and woe to the young witch who mixed wrong ingredient into her potion while trying to brew it quickly.

Ingredient cards are dealt evenly to all players and each player draws a recipe card and puts it down back-side up. On a signal of “Toadstools and a pinch of thyme” all turn over their recipe cards which indicate the necessary ingredients for the potion. All players now quickly check their own ingredient stack, turns over card by card and checks it. If the card shows none of the necessary ingredients you put the card on your discard pile. If you find an ingredient, you put it on your ingredient stack. If you see an ingredient that you need on the discard pile of another player you can take, but always only the top card. When you have checked your own pile, you take the discard pile of another player and check this for your ingredients. When you have collected all five ingredients for your recipe, you set them aside with the recipe card, draw a new recipe card and continue to search. If you have brewed three potions in this way, you snatch up Senior Witch Yorandel and check your potions together with the other players. When all ingredients are present and correct, you win the game. But if you made a mistake, you have lost the game, put back the Senior Witch and the other players continue the game.

Chaos is the right expression, the game is fast, hectic and yet demands close observation which is not that easy, and take care not to disturb another player’s stack if you grab an ingredient there. A fast, good, fun game and a challenge for motor skills as well as pattern recognition.

Players: 2-6

Age: 6+

Time: 15+

Designer: Fréderic Moyersoen

Artist: Joachim Krause

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Haba 2015

Web: www.haba.de

Genre: Reaction, collect,

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Good topic

Nice components

Simple rules

Trains motor skills and pattern recognition

Compares to:

Reaction games with collecting

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0